extrahepatic bile duct in dogs

Passages external to the liver for the conveyance of bile. These include the common bile duct and the common hepatic duct. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the extrahepatic bile duct is

Passages external to the liver for the conveyance of bile. These include the common bile duct and the common hepatic duct. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the extrahepatic bile duct is

It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the extrahepatic bile duct connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of biliary tree.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the extrahepatic bile duct. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as bile duct extrahepatic part and extrahepatic biliary system. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003703, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: biliary tree.
• A kind of: bile duct.
• subtype: common bile duct, common hepatic duct, cystic duct, left hepatic duct and right hepatic duct.
• contains: extrahepatic bile duct epithelium and extrahepatic part of hepatic duct.

Questions

Where is the extrahepatic bile duct?

It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the extrahepatic bile duct connect to?

Part of: biliary tree.

Is the extrahepatic bile duct the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.